But few people might know his breakout film, Tangerine, was shot on an iPhone a decade years ago. Anora is Baker’s biggest success so far, an indie hit made on a budget of around $6 million.

Tangerine has been selected as the first non-Japanese design partner to be entrusted with designing one of Japan’s iconic bullet trains: JR East’s E10 Shinkansen train. Tangerine has revealed the ...